These are astonishing. When I think of the trouble I've had trying to get my tiny little box plants into globes.....! (now given up as they are hard against the fence of the chickens' run, so letting them grow into a little hedge instead).

There is a garden hedge in the village of Pontblyddin, near me, which used to be cut into the letters 'PONTBLYDDIN', sadly in recent years it has been allowed to grow out of shape, I wonder if perhaps the owners are no longer able to trim it, a shame as it used to be so individual.